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30 May 1972: A Protestant civilian, Joan Scott (12), died three days after being shot during an IRA sniper attack on a RUC mobile patrol, Oldpark Road, Belfast. [53] 30 May 1972: A British Army soldier, Marcel Doglay (aged 28), was killed when a time bomb exploded inside the Springfield Road RUC/British Army base, Belfast.
The Royal Ulster Constabulary (RUC) [n 1] was the police force in Northern Ireland from 1922 to 2001. It was founded on 1 June 1922 as a successor to the Royal Irish Constabulary (RIC) [2] following the partition of Ireland. At its peak the force had around 8,500 officers, with a further 4,500 who were members of the RUC Reserve.
The RUC was a militarised police force [17] [18] [19] and played a key role in policing the violent conflict known as the Troubles. Initially, Sinn Féin , which represented about a quarter of Northern Ireland voters at the time, refused to endorse the PSNI until the Patten Commission's recommendations were implemented in full.
18 July: the INLA attacked an RUC vehicle patrol with two blast bombs in the Markets area of Belfast, slightly injuring an RUC officer. [138] [164] 19 July: an INLA sniper fired two shots at an RUC patrol at Lisbon Street in the Short Strand area of Belfast. The officers returned fire but claimed no hits and were later treated for shock. [165]
The IRA unit were pursued by the RUC after the shooting but escaped after they opened fire on an RUC patrol car. [282] [359] a joint British Army/RUC patrol escaped injury in an IRA rocket attack at Altadavin, outside Clogher, County Tyrone. [362] 30 June 1991: the IRA fired a horizontal mortar at an RUC patrol car in Omagh, County Tyrone.
a coffee jar bomb was thrown at an RUC mobile patrol on Ardilea Street in the Oldpark area of Belfast. [7] an IRA unit dropped a 5 lb (2.3 kg) Semtex bomb onto an armoured RUC patrol vehicle in the New Lodge area of Belfast. [8] a Semtex booby-trap bomb in a derelict house was defused by the British Army near Coagh, County Tyrone. [9] 5 January ...
1 May: the IRA carried out a rocket attack on New Barnsley RUC station, Belfast. [182] 1 May: a British soldier was injured in an IRA attack in the New Lodge area of Belfast. [182] 2 May: an IRA volunteer (Finbarr McKenna) was killed in a premature bomb explosion during an attack on Springfield RUC base in Belfast. A woman nearby was injured.
The RUC SPG was based on the Metropolitan Police model with the main roles of preventing outbreaks of public order and an anti-terrorist role. The SPG in London was disbanded in January 1987 and the same fate befell the RUC Special Patrol Group. They were replaced by Divisional Mobile Support Units operating under local divisional control. [5]